BTQ names Dr. Michael Grace to support QCIM security and commercialization
BTQ Technologies said Dr. Michael Grace is joining its U.S. team to help advance QCIM product security and commercialization, while the architecture moves deeper into integration and validation.
BTQ Technologies said Dr. Michael Grace will join its U.S. team to support QCIM development, product security and commercialization as the post-quantum chip program moves into module-level integration.
BTQ Technologies Corp. said on Aug. 18 that it appointed Dr. Michael Grace to its U.S. team to help advance its Quantum Compute-in-Memory, or QCIM, architecture for post-quantum cryptography.
The company said Grace will support development, product security and commercialization as QCIM moves from an earlier technical milestone into module-level integration, verification and validation. BTQ said the next stage is meant to test whether the architecture can fit into broader system designs while maintaining functional correctness, interoperability and performance.
BTQ described QCIM as a soft IP cryptographic accelerator designed to support classical and post-quantum cryptographic functions in a compact, low-power block for IoT, AI devices, industrial systems, secure elements, edge devices and other connected infrastructure.
In its release, BTQ said Grace brings experience in product security, trusted computing, mobile and embedded security, and security architectures for enterprise and regulated environments. The company said he previously led Samsung Mobile’s Knox Security Team and later served as director of product security at Mojo Vision.
BTQ said Grace and his team helped define security architecture for Samsung Knox, Samsung Pay and Samsung Pass, and that his work included collaboration with technology companies, original equipment manufacturers and regulatory agencies on mobile security issues. It also said his work has centered on trusted computing, security testing frameworks and security architectures for small, highly connected devices.
Grace was quoted in the release as saying security must work as part of the complete system, and that he is excited to work with BTQ as QCIM progresses through integration, validation and toward commercial deployment.
The company also said QCIM is advancing on a chip roadmap with ICTK Co., Ltd. and Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, or ITRI. BTQ said it completed an earlier technical milestone with ITRI, validating the QCIM core in a TSMC 28-nanometre design environment and demonstrating acceleration of cryptographic operations tied to NIST standards FIPS 203, FIPS 204 and FIPS 205.
BTQ said the results confirmed functional correctness and feasibility and showed performance advantages and crypto-agility across multiple post-quantum algorithms. The company identified itself in the release as Nasdaq: BTQ and Cboe CA: BTQ.
BTQ said the program is now in module-level integration, verification and validation. The release said Grace is expected to support that stage as the company evaluates QCIM for broader system architectures and eventual commercial deployment.
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